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Naomi Klein

What Naomi Klein thinks about capitalism

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Canadian writer and journalist, author of No Logo (1999), The Shock Doctrine (2007), This Changes Everything (2014), Doppelganger (2023) and, with Astra Taylor, End Times Fascism (2026). Writes the newsletter Patterns.

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7 dated positions, c. 2007 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Naomi Klein has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingThe AI bubble holding up the global economy is deflating, and its crash will give its opponents their greatest leverage.

    Their wordsThese questions are urgent, especially as the bubble currently holding up the global economy audibly hisses air. When the crash comes, we will, very briefly, have the most leverage we will ever have.

    ↗The Bots Are Just The Closersnaomiklein.substack.com 3rd of 6 in this piece

  3. Our readingThe AI companies have gambled the entire economy on one of them winning.

    Their wordsA big crisis is coming. These companies have gambled the entire economy on the belief that one of them gets to win.

    ↗The Bots Are Just The Closersnaomiklein.substack.com 5th of 6 in this piece

  5. Our readingOur economy is at war with the planet and with life on earth

    Their wordsour economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life.

    ↗This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Simon & Schuster, 2014)archive.org All 4 from this book

  7. Our readingEmissions have not been cut because cutting them conflicts with deregulated capitalism

    Their wordswe have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism

    ↗This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Simon & Schuster, 2014)archive.org All 4 from this book

  9. Our readingMarket fundamentalism has become the greatest enemy of planetary health

    Their wordsthe stifling market fundamentalism that has become the greatest enemy to planetary health.

    ↗This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Simon & Schuster, 2014)archive.org All 4 from this book

  11. Our readingNot every market system is inherently violent

    Their wordsI am not arguing that all forms of market systems are inherently violent.

    ↗The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books, 2007)archive.org All 4 from this book

  13. Our readingA market economy is possible without brutality or ideological purity

    Their wordsIt is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity.

    ↗The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books, 2007)archive.org All 4 from this book